BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 83, 14 May 1914, Page 8

BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL.

OLD BOYS' ASSOCIATION; ANNUAL MEETING. The annual meeting of the Christchurch High School Old Boys' Association was held at the Boys' High School last evening, Mr G. Scott presiding over an attendance of about 25 members, i The committee's annual report stated that since last annual meeting 58 members had joined the association, and seven had ceased to be members, the membership now standing at 445. The balance-sheet showed, receipts £l3O 10/11, expenditure £llß 4/-, leaving a credit balance of £l2 6/11. The chairman, in moving the adoption ' of the report and balance-sheet, said it was a regrettable fact that out of 445 members only 279 had paid their subscriptions for the year just passed. He hoped for an improvement in this direction in the current year.

Mr G. Gray complained that the method of making financial grants to the football club was unbusinesslike. The secretary of the football club had to go hat in .hand to the secretary of the association whenever money was needed. There should be a monthly statement of accounts, and a monthly cheque to the club. The balance-sheet did not disclose the position of affairs between the club and the association. The chairman said he agreed that the matter should be put on a more businesslike basis. Dr W. S. Seed suggested that in future the '' School Magazine'' should not be sent to unfinancial members. He moved that it should be a recommendation to the incoming committee that a special committee should be set up to devise means of collecting outstanding subscriptions. . . The motion was carried, and it was decided to recommend that the. committee should be a Finance Committee of three members, meeting monthly. The report and balance-sheet were adopted. The election of officers resulted as follows: —'Patron, Mr (J.- '3* l.' BeavanBrown; president, Mr J. Tait; vicepresidents, Messrs G. Scott, jun., T. W. Reece and L. R. Cuningham, committee, Dr W. S. Seed, Dr A. J. Orchard, and Messrs C. Buchanan and A. O. Ponder; honorary secretary and treasurer, Mr A. Day: honorary auditor, Mr H. S. Cordery.